. The plays of William Shakespeare in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illus. of various commentators, to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, rev. and augm. by Isaac Reed, with a glossarial index . through some mistake citedRobertus Monachus, who wrote before M. Paris, and has left anextremely curious account of the Crusades, He is describingthe arrival of some messengers from Babylon, who, upon en-tering the Christian camp, find to their great astonishment (forthey had heard that the Christians were perishing with fear andhunger) the tents curiously orname
. The plays of William Shakespeare in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illus. of various commentators, to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, rev. and augm. by Isaac Reed, with a glossarial index . through some mistake citedRobertus Monachus, who wrote before M. Paris, and has left anextremely curious account of the Crusades, He is describingthe arrival of some messengers from Babylon, who, upon en-tering the Christian camp, find to their great astonishment (forthey had heard that the Christians were perishing with fear andhunger) the tents curiously ornamented, and the young menpractising themselves and their horses in tilting against shieldshung upon poles. In the oldest edition of this writer, insteadof quintance ludus,^ it is ludus equestris.^ However, thisis certainly not the quintain that is here wanted, and thereforeMr. Malone has substituted another, copied indeed from a con-temporary writer, but still not illustrative of the passage in ques-tion. I shall beg leave then to present the reader with someothers, from which it will appear, that the quintain tvas amilitary exercise in Shakspeares time, and not a mere rusticsport, as Mr. Malone imagines. O 2 19G AS YOU LIKE 312
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